Encyclopedia of Microtonal Music Theory

Monophony / Partch-Monophony

(with a capital 'M')

[Harry Partch, Genesis of a Music (2nd ed), p 71]

An organization of musical materials based upon the faculty of the human ear to perceive all intervals and to deduce all principles of musical relationship as an expansion from unity, as 1 is to 1, or -- as it is expressed in this work [Genesis of a Music] -- 1/1.

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